Salesforce
Senior Director, Platform Product, Emerging Technology
$218K–$401K
New York - New York +1 · Office Tech-Flexible · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- New York - New York
California - San Francisco - Experience
- 10+ years in product management; 4+ leading platform, infrastructure, or developer products.
- Education
- Bachelor’s in a technical field (CS or similar) or equivalent hands-on experience.
About the job
Build and lead Salesforce’s platform product function, shaping scattered technical capabilities into a unified roadmap and driving adoption across teams.
What you'll do
- Create the platform product function, intake process, prioritization approach, and sequenced roadmap.
- Partner with engineering to assess technical work, resolve tradeoffs, and consolidate overlapping initiatives.
- Run continuous discovery, communicate priorities, and secure partner-team adoption milestones.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in product management, including 4+ years leading platform, infrastructure, or developer products.
- Experience owning technical products where engineers are primary customers, including developer productivity or tooling.
- Technical depth across several listed areas, such as cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, real-time ML, or the emerging AI stack.
- Proven roadmap prioritization, internal-platform adoption, executive communication, and influence without authority.
Nice to have
- Former engineering experience, including writing and shipping production code.
- Bachelor’s in a technical field (CS or similar) or equivalent hands-on experience.
Pay
$218,400 - $365,200 USD base salary; $263,200 - $401,400 USD base salary
Tools
AWS, containers, serverless, CI/CD, data and telemetry pipelines, event buses, MCP servers, knowledge graphs
AI focus
The role shapes platform capabilities that include the emerging AI stack, such as MCP servers, MCP registries, agent tooling, and knowledge graphs. Salesforce also states that AI tools assist recruiters in assessing resumes and qualifications; humans make candidate selection and hiring decisions.
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